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Skeptic Books
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,720 ratings — published 1995
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.90 — 285,821 ratings — published 2006
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,001 ratings — published 1997
Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,060 ratings — published 1982
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.96 — 113,751 ratings — published 2007
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,597 ratings — published 2008
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,133 ratings — published 2008
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,516 ratings — published 1999
The Faith Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.20 — 848 ratings — published 1987
The Truth About Uri Geller (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.93 — 385 ratings — published 1975
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.95 — 603 ratings — published 1995
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,040 ratings — published 2010
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.00 — 22,583 ratings — published 1957
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,948 ratings — published 2018
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,555 ratings — published 2013
Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine (Vitamins, Supplements, and All Things Natural: A Look Behind the Curtain)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,135 ratings — published 2013
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,896 ratings — published 2004
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.17 — 602,289 ratings — published 2011
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,672 ratings — published 2011
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,718 ratings — published 2004
Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,740 ratings — published 2012
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.99 — 42,802 ratings — published 2006
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.03 — 18,991 ratings — published 2007
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,195 ratings — published 1991
Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,351 ratings — published 2009
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.76 — 4,751 ratings — published 2016
Conspiracies Declassified: The Skeptoid Guide to the Truth Behind the Theories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.56 — 198 ratings — published
The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,577 ratings — published 2017
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,868 ratings — published 2014
Attack of the Theocrats!: How the Religious Right Harms Us All — and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.89 — 883 ratings — published 2011
Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.14 — 13,908 ratings — published 2014
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.86 — 73,505 ratings — published 2013
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,973 ratings — published 2014
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,797 ratings — published 2005
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,984 ratings — published 2006
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,296 ratings — published 1976
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,222 ratings — published 2010
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,790 ratings — published 2002
Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,624 ratings — published 2000
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,838 ratings — published 1995
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,268 ratings — published 1997
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.08 — 72,337 ratings — published 2001
The Mismeasure of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,391 ratings — published 1982
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.67 — 558 ratings — published 1997
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,175 ratings — published 1952
James Randi: Psychic Investigator (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.06 — 63 ratings — published 1991
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,582 ratings — published 2010
Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,854 ratings — published 2011
Lying (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,674 ratings — published 2011
God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.67 — 7,842 ratings — published 2011
“Skeptics are always marked by their total lack of skepticism towards whatever position they are defending.”
― Soul Science: Know Your Soul
― Soul Science: Know Your Soul
“[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired]
This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects (Works, Vol. iv, p. 327).”
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This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects (Works, Vol. iv, p. 327).”
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